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Elliott, Lisa N.
2010-01-19T23:18:35Z
2010-01-19T23:18:35Z
2001-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10110
xiii, 94 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, June 2001. A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Elliot 2001
This adaptation of the 14th century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
includes not only the action of the poem, but a month in the life of the poet and a modem
reader experiencing the text for the first time. In each of these frames, the central
characters go through processes of self-discovery that allow them to realize their own
gayness and creative potential. The screenplay deals with how people in different time
periods struggle with societal and personal expectations.
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Honors College, B.A., 2001;
Gawain and the Grene Knight
"The pearl poet" : an adaptation of "Sir Gowain and the Green Knight"
Adaptation of "Sir Gowain and the Green Knight"
Thesis

Le Chevallier, Anne Marie
2008-09-29T18:02:51Z
2008-09-29T18:02:51Z
2006-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7355
iv, 64 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2006.
A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Le Chevallier 2006
Called apparitions, the widespread phenomenon of appearances of Mary has been
reported to occur since the apostle St. James the Greater roamed Spain, and it continues
to this day. A folklore and following has developed surrounding her apparitions to the
laity, poor, uneducated and young occurring, especially, in modem times. Contemporary
authors have reinterpreted Mary and these apparitions in order to explore and understand
their meaning.
This thesis reviews both the history of Marian devotion and theology, and it narrates
major, modem apparitions. It further examines how apparitions of Mary are portrayed in
the three contemporary novels Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen,
Bernardo and the Virgin by Silvio Sirias and Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson.
These novels show the traditional representations of Mary and how this tradition is
reinterpreted in a post-modem and contemporary lens: they portray the suffering and
liberation of the characters and author through their relationship with Mary.
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Honors College, B.A., 2006
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in contemporary fiction
Thesis

Wyatt, Taylor
2008-06-12T19:29:35Z
2008-06-12T19:29:35Z
2008-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6592
A THESIS Presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2008.
This thesis suggests that a modification in the way writing is taught at the high school level can make the subject more worthwhile and accessible to students. A look at the current English classroom shows that students are removed from their writing and disinterested in the subject. The aim of this study is to create an in-class writing environment that emulates the writing process, as it is practiced by professionals, using the strategies of accomplished authors as a model and incorporating ideas gleaned from educational materials as well. An incremental change made to the teaching of high school writing, one that allows students to interact with the material on a more individual basis and in an authentic way, may result in more capable student writers and also present them with the opportunity for personal growth.
Professor Suzanne Clark,
Mr. Paul Dresman,
Professor David Frank
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Composition
Writing
Penmanship -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
On The Same Side: Emulating A Writing Life In The High School English Classroom
Thesis

Henrichs, Amanda K.
2008-06-05T23:41:03Z
2008-06-05T23:41:03Z
2008
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/6557
55 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2008.
Through the centuries, critics have struggled with the poetry of Andrew Marvell, using diverse frameworks to examine his work. In this thesis, three poems – “Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings,” “Mourning,” and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn” – will be read as elegies in order to examine how Andrew Marvell treats the intersection of language and grief in the elegiac form. Traditionally, the elegy is meant first to praise and lament the deceased, and then to console the survivors. However, Marvell actually undermines the supposed power of the elegy to move the mourner beyond her grief. In the elegy for Hastings, the power of grief is such that it affects the immortality of poetic art; in "Mourning," both readers and poetic interpreters fail to find any significance in Clora’s tears; and finally, in the "Nymph Complaining," Marvell links grief to poetry in an intricate, complex fashion, yet ultimately subordinates the survival of the living to the power of the dead. All told, Marvell exposes the elegy as a failed form, revealing that it does not (and indeed cannot) satisfactorily achieve its traditional goal of consoling the bereaved.
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Elegy
Mourning
Language
Andrew Marvell
Grief in literature
Form
Poetry
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
Elegiac poetry
"I shall weep though I be stone": Grief and Language in Andrew Marvell
Thesis